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DBMS > dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. JSqlDb vs. PostGIS vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. JSqlDb vs. PostGIS vs. Splice Machine

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptiondBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comjsqldb.org (offline)postgis.netsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasepostgis.net/­documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAsthon TateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKonrad von BackstromSplice Machine
Initial release19792008201820052014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.2.4, September 20120.8, December 20183.4.2, February 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nofunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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